Miesha Tate To Drop The Green Flag At Martinsville Speedway For NASCAR Race

UFC Women’s Bantamweight contender Miesha Tate has been selected to drop the green flag at Martinsville Speedway for the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 on Sunday, October 26th.

“I have had the opportunity to do a lot of cool things in my life, but attending my first race and dropping the green flag might be one of the coolest things I have ever done,” said the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight title contender.

“I think we’re both top-tier athletes, both UFC fighters and NASCAR drivers,” Tate said. “We all work really hard to be where we’re at. The fans are similar in that they enjoy the excitement each sport offers and that’s why they watch and partake in them. I think that fans of NASCAR would naturally gravitate to the UFC, and vice versa, if we could just bridge that gap a bit better between both worlds.”

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